University Standing Committees

University Standing Committees

To study, review, and make pertinent recommendations on academic
policies and procedures including admission, retention and dismissal,
repeat grades, withdrawal, academic calendar, and suspension of
library privileges. The scope of study and review of the Academic
Policies and Standards Committee is limited by the published
"purposes" of other standing committees of the University
Academic Senate.

The role of this Advisory Committee is to provide recommendations to
Facilities Planning on planning, remodeling, and building academic
facilities at Grand Valley, with the goal of providing an optimal
teaching and learning environment. Specific responsibilities include:

Serve as a liaison between the Grand Valley academic community and
Facilities Planning

Inform and advise Facilities Planning on factors that affect
teaching and learning; most importantly (but not limited to)
classroom design.

Maintain a collaborative relationship with the building project
committees in order to facilitate faculty input into decision-making.

Review current classroom space and make recommendations for future
new and remodeled classrooms.

To study pertinent data and make recommendations to the Senate
through ECS on the allocation of funds within the Grand Valley
budget as a whole as well as within the budgets of the
administrative divisions.

To study pertinent data and make recommendations to the Senate
through ECS on the items of the budget, compensation, or faculty security.

To study pertinent data and make recommendations to the Senate
through ECS, at both the Prospectus and New Program Proposal stages,
on proposals for the establishment of additional units/programs at
Grand Valley.

To review and recommend actions upon new courses proposed for
graduate programs and/or revisions to current graduate courses or programs.

To review and recommend actions upon and, as needed, initiate
policies and standards related to graduate education that ensure
consistency, equity, and fairness, while not impinging upon the
disciplinary expertise and responsibility of the program faculty.
This shall include matters related to admission, program progress,
and completion for post-baccalaureate students in non-degree,
certificate, and degree program statuses.

To review and recommend actions upon requests for exceptions to
university minimum standards or policies.

To review and recommend actions related to new graduate degree and
certificate programs and to review and recommend actions related to
existing graduate programs at the time of assessment and/or program
review and/or accreditation.

To consider and recommend graduate financial aid policies and
options and advise on allocation of university financial support for
graduate students.

To call meetings of all faculty to discuss emerging issues in and
strategic planning for graduate education at Grand Valley.

To identify and monitor quality indicators of graduate education.

Student Representation: Two graduate student
representatives from different graduate programs, selected by the
Graduate Student Association (GSA). Each subcommittee will have a
graduate student representative. (For more information on GC, please
contact the GSA. These student representatives are not approved by
Student Senate.)

The UAC’s primary responsibilities are to oversee and support the
process of assessing units (including assessing student learning
outcomes). It does so by reviewing assessment plans, progress reports
and self-studies for all academic majors, academic units and service units.

The Council’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to
the following:

Participate in a FTLC faculty development workshop for
online/hybrid pedagogy in order to best facilitate OEC
recommendations to the faculty;

Develop university pedagogy and oversight standards for online and
hybrid programming consistent with traditional courses offerings;

Evaluate online and hybrid offerings (the recommendation of OEC
will be appended to the online curricular system, analogous to
current recommendations by IT and University Libraries);

Create recommendations for faculty development of faculty who
teach online and hybrid offerings;

Review and make changes to curricular forms that address online
and hybrid pedagogy issues when appropriate;

Request changes to Syllabus of Record in cases of substantial
change to existing course due to online/hybrid delivery mode;

In consultation with FTLC, develop student evaluation instrument
to be used in all online and hybrid courses that include questions
particular to online/hybrid pedagogy as determined by best practices;

Create communication plan of online and hybrid course offerings in
these programs to internal offices (e.g. Admissions, University Libraries);

Develop recommendations of consistent workload guidelines with
regard to online and hybrid curriculum, in consultation with other
faculty governance committees;

Develop assessment tools for online and hybrid courses, in
consultation with FTLC and UAC.